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Fall 2007
Date Presenter Paper Title
September 26 Antoinette Schoar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Judge Specific Differences in Chapter 11 and Firm Outcomes" (Coauthor Tom Chang)
October 3 Robin Greenwood
Harvard Business School, Harvard University

"Catering Through Nominal Share Prices" (Coauthors Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler) (PDF 238 KB / 43 pages)

October 10

Wei Jiang
Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

"Payoff Complementarities and Financial Fragility: Evidence from Mutual Fund Outflows" (Coauthors Qi Chen and Itay Goldstein) (PDF 387 KB / 54 pages)

October 17

Peter Bossaerts

California Institute of Technology

Swiss Finance Institute Professor (from 1 August on)

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne

(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne)

"Exploring the Nature of 'Trading Intuition'" (Coauthors Antione J Bruguier and Steven R Quartz)

October 24
** 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Jessica Wachter
Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania
"Why Do Household Portfolio Shares Rise in Wealth?" (Coauthor Motohiro Yogo) (PDF 315 KB / 54 pages)

October 31

Will Goetzmann
Yale School of Management, Yale University
"Mandatory Disclosure and Operational Risk: Evidence from Hedge Fund Registration" (Coauthors Stephen Brown, Bing Liang and Christopher Schwarz) (PDF 487 KB / 56 pages)
November 7 Jonathan Zinman
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
"Fuzzy Math and Household Finance: Theory and Evidence" (Coauthor Victor Stango)
November 14

Denis Gromb
London Business School

"Financially Constrained Arbitrage and Cross-Market Contagion" (Coauthor Dimitri Vayanos) (PDF 65 KB / 29 pages)

Friday, November 16 in room 2245 Motohiro Yogo Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania
"Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets" (PDF 305 KB / 43 pages)
November 28 Raghu Rajan
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
"Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States" (Coauthor Rodney Ramcharan) (PDF 271 KB / 40 pages)
December 5 Milton Harris
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
"Control of the Corporate Decisions: Shareholders vs. Management" (Coauthor Artur Raviv) (PDF 300 KB / 34 pages)
Friday, December 7 in G44 James Vickery "How Do Financial Frictions Shape the Product Market? Evidence From Mortgage Originations"

 

Spring 2007
Date Presenter Paper Title
March 28 Richard Stanton
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
"Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure" (Coauthors Jonathan Berk and Josef Zechner) (PDF 300 KB / 38 pages)
April 4 Jianjun Miao
Graduate School of Management, Boston University

"Firm Heterogeneity and the Long-Run Effects of Dividend Tax Reform" (Coauthor Francois Gourio) (PDF 340 KB / 44 pages)

April 11

Narasimhan Jegadeesh
Goizueta Business School, Emory University

"Do Analysts Herd? An Analysis of Recommendations and Market Reactions"
(Coauthor Woojin Kim)
Second Version (PDF 160 KB / 40 pages)
"Do Analysts Herd? An Analysis of Recommendations and Market Reactions"
(Coauthor Woojin Kim) (PDF 197 KB / 41 pages)

** Tuesday April 17

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Nour Meddahi
Tanaka Business School,
Imperial College London

"Testing Distributional Assumptions: A GMM Aproach" (Coauthor Christian Bontemps) (PDF 293 KB / 32 pages)

 

April 18

Bruce Lehmann
Rady School of Management, University of California at San Diego
"Arbitrage-Free Limit Order Markets and the Pricing of Order Flow Risk" (PDF 442 KB / 56 pages)

**April 25

Room changed to 1246

David Scharfstein
Harvard Business School, Harvard University
"Skill and Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs" (PDF 218 KB / 42 pages) 
May 2 Ken Ayotte
Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
"Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting (Coauthor Patrick Bolton) (PDF 404 KB / 46 pages)
May 9

Michael Lemmon
David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah

"Why Designate Market Makers?  Affirmative Obligations and Market Quality" (Coauthors Hank Bessembinder and Jia Hao)

May 16 Mark Westerfield
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
"Disagreement and Learning in a Dynamic Contracting Model" (Coauthor Tobias Adrian) (PDF 252 KB / 35 pages)
May 23 Nicholas Barberis
Yale School of Management, Yale University
"What Drives the Disposition Effect? An Analysis of a Long-standing Preference-based Explanation" (Coauthor Wei Xiong) (PDF 396 KB / 47 pages)
May 30 Jose Scheinkman
Department of Economics, Princeton University

"Long Term Risk: An Operator Approach" (Coauthor Lars Hansen) (PDF 322 KB / 55 pages)

June 6 Tom Davidoff
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
"Stock Prices, Housing Prices, Housing Stock Prices and the Fundamentals " (PDF 187 KB / 27 pages)

 

Fall 2006
Date Presenter Paper Title
**Sept 20 Seminar will be held 10:45 - 12:15 in G44

Darrell Duffie
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

"Systemic Dynamics in the Federal Funds Market" (Coauthor Adam Aschraft) (PDF 17 KB / 4 pages)
Sept 27 Anil Kashyap
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
"Investment Spikes: New Facts and a General Equilibrium Exploration" (Coauthor Francois Gourio) (PDF 265 KB / 47 pages)
Oct 4

Alon Brav
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

"Costly Communication, Shareholder Activism, and Limits to Arbitrage:
Evidence from Closed-End Funds"
(PDF 239 KB / 49 pages)

Oct 11

Ron Kaniel
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
"Momemtum as an outcome of difference in higher order beliefs" (PDF 235 KB / 31 pages)

Oct 18

Gur Huberman
Columbia Business School, Columbia University
"Is the Price of Money Managers Too Low?" (PDF 263 KB / 37 pages)
Oct 25 Tobias Moskowitz
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
"The Political Economy of Financial Regulation: Evidence from U.S. Usury Laws in the 19th Century" (PDF 492 KB / 52 pages)
Nov 1

Amil Dasgupta

"The Price of Conformism" (PDF 360 KB / 39 pages) (Coauthors Andrea Prat and and Michela Verardo)
Background Paper:
"Asset Price Dynamics When Traders Care About Reputation"
(PDF 258 KB / 40 pages)

Nov 8 Michael Roberts
Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania
 Nov 15 Yuliy Sannikov
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
"Agency Problems, Screening and Increasing Credit Lines" (PDF 249 KB / 36 pages)
Nov 29 Bob Goldstein
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
"On the Relation Between the Credit Spread Puzzle and the Equity Premium Puzzle" (PDF 312 KB / 45 pages)
Dec 6 Bhaskaran Swaminathan
Johnson School of Management, Cornell University

"Do stock prices underreact to SEO announcements? Evidence from SEO valuation"
(Coauthor Amiyatosh Purnanandam)
(PDF 845 KB / 41 pages)

 

Spring 2006
Date Presenter School Paper Title
**Thursday, March 30, 11:45am - 1:15pm, Room G03

Bernard Dumas

Insead "What Can Rational Investors Do About Excessive Volatility and Sentiment Fluctuations?"
(PDF 509 KB / 47 pages)
April 5 Roni Michaely Cornell
April 12 Laura Veldkamp NYU "Information Acquisition and Portfolio Under- Diversification"
(PDF 328 KB / 36 pages)

April 19

 

Daniel Wolfenzon NYU

April 26

Andrew Winton UMN "Bank Loans, Bonds, and Information Monopolies across the Business Cycle" (PDF 186 KB / 42 pages)
May 3 Jeff
Coles
ASU "Structural Models and Endogeneity in Corporate
Finance"
(PDF 479 K / 60 pages)
May 10

Jeff
Wurgler

NYU "Government bonds and the cross-section of stock returns" (PDF 185 K / 38 pages)
May 17 Rene
Adams
HHS "Gender diversity in the boardroom" (PDF 349 K / 35 pages)
**May 24, Room G36 Dan Bergstresser HBS TBA
May 31 Anat
Admati
Stanford "The 'Wall Street Walk' and Shareholder Activism:
Exit as a Form of Voice"
(PDF 399 K / 47 pages)

 

Winter 2006
Date Presenter School Paper Title
Jan. 11
Camelia Kuhnen Stanford "Social Networks, Corporate Governance and Contracting in the Mutual Fund Industry"
(PDF 50 pages)
*Friday, Jan. 13 , 1:30-3pm Gustavo Manso Stanford "Motivating Innovation"
(PDF 354 KB / 50 pages)

*Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1:30-3pm

Mark
Leary
Duke
Jan. 18

Ruslan
Bikbov

Columbia "Monetary Policy Regimes and the Term Structure of Interest Rates"
*Tuesday, Jan. 24,
1:30-3pm
David Matsa MIT
"Capital Structure as a Strategic Variable: Evidence from Collective
Bargaining"
Jan. 25 Jan
Schneider
UBC "A Rational Expectations Equilibrium with Informative Trading Volume"
*Friday,
Jan. 27,
1:30-3pm
Justin
Sydnor
Berkeley
Feb. 1 Victoria
Ivashina
NYU "The Effects of Syndicate Structure on Loan Spreads"
*Friday,
Feb. 3,
1:30-3pm
Pavel
Savor
Harvard "Do Stock Mergers Create Value for Acquirers?"
Feb. 15

Jose
Liberti

Visiting Kellogg "Estimating the Effect of Hierarchies on Information Use"
*Wednesday,
Feb. 22,
10:30am-Noon
Room 4214
Tom
Hubbard
Kellogg "The Organization of Specialization: Knowledge Based Production"
(Word Doc 2.53 MB / 56 pages)
March 1 Owen Lamont Yale "Dumb Money"
(PDF 180 KB / 59 pages)

 

Fall 2005
Date Presenter School Paper Title
Sept. 21
Robert Novy-Marx Chicago GSB "A Q-Theory of Dynamic Oligopoly" (PDF 241 KB / 42 pages)
Sept. 28 Zhenyu Wang NY FRB "Public Provision of Private Liquidity" (PDF 1.26 MB / 48 pages)

Oct. 5

Yaniv Grinstein Cornell
Oct. 12 Clemens Sialm Michigan "Unobserved Actions of Mutual Funds"
Oct. 19 Jonathan Parker Princeton "Household Expenditure and the Income Tax Rebates of 2001"
Oct. 26 Peter Christoffersen McGill "An Empirical Comparison of Affine and Non-Affine Models for Equity Index Options"
Nov. 2 Holger Mueller NYU "Concentrated Ownership and Labor Relations"
Nov. 9 Matias Braun UCLA Where Does the Market Matter? Stock Prices and Investment Around the World" (PDF 230 KB / 40 pages)
Nov. 16 Neng Wang Columbia "Investment, Consumption and Hedging Under Incomplete Markets"

Nov. 30  

Chris Malloy LBS "Supply and Demand Shifts in the Shorting Market"

 

Spring 2005
Date Presenter School Paper Title
Mar 30
Francis Longstaff UCLA Asset Pricing in Markets with Illiquid Assets
Apr 6 Jacob Sagi U California, Berkeley Liquidity and Closed-End Funds (with Martin Cherkes, Princeton and Richard Stanton, U California, Berkeley)

Apr 13 *

12:00-1:30 p.m. in room G43

Jonathan Berk U California, Berkeley

A Rational Model of the Closed-End Fund Discount (with Richard Stanton, Berkeley) AND Persistence and Fund Flows of the Worst Performing Mutual Funds (with Jing Xu, Berkeley)

Apr 20 Jonathan Parker Princeton Optimal Expectations (with Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton)
Apr 27 Markus Brunnermeier Princeton Marketing Liquidity and Funding Liquidity (with Lasse Pedersen, NYU)
May 4 Vefa Tarhan Loyola Allocating Marginal Cashflow: Investment, Financing, and Distribution Decision Sensitivities (with Todd Pulvino, Northwestern)
May 11 Julian Franks LBS

Ownership: Evolution and Regulation (with Colin Mayer, U Oxford and Stefano Rossi, LBS)

May 18 Atif Mian U Chicago Tracing the Financial and Real Impact of a Credit Crunch
May 25 Dirk Jenter MIT Employee Sentiment and Stock Option Compensation

Jun 1*
9:00 - 10:30am in Rm G36

William Easterly NYU Reliving the '50s: Poverty Traps, the Big Push, and Takeoffs in Economic Development

 

Fall 2004
Date Presenter School Paper Title
Sep 22
Mariassunta Giannetti Stockholm School Social Interactions and Entrepreneurial Activity (with Andrei Simonov)
Sep 24
12-1pm
Oleg Bondarenko UIC Zell Center Bag Lunch: Market Price of Variance Risk and Performance of Hedge Funds
Sep 28
Philip Bond Wharton Zell Center Bag Lunch: Debt restructuring and voting rules
Sep 29 James Weston Rice Can Managers Forecast Aggregate Bond Market Returns? (with Alexander Butler and Gustavo Grullon)
Oct 6 Christian Hellwig UCLA Coordination Failures and Asset Prices (with Arijit Mukherji, U Minn and Aleh Tsyvinski, UCLA & NBER)
Oct 8
12-1 pm
Ed Mills NU Zell Center Bag Lunch: Why do we have urban density controls?
Oct 13 Mark Seasholes U California, Berkeley

Uninformed Trading and Asset Prices (with Sandro C. Andrade, UC Berkeley and Charles Chang, Cornell)

Oct 20 Amir Yaron U Penn, Wharton Future Prices in a Production Economy with Investment Constraints
Oct 27 Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas U California, Berkeley International Financial Adjustment (with Helene Rey, Princeton)

Oct 29

Yong Wang Kellogg Finance Job Market Talk: Consumption Risk and the Cost of Equity Capital (with Ravi Jagannathan)
Nov 3 Christopher Hennessy U California Berkeley Beyond Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities: Using Indirect Inference to Estimate Costs of External Funds (with Toni Whited, U WI-Madison)
Nov 9
12-1 pm
Joseph Engelberg and Jared Williams Kellogg Finance Rationalizing Incremental Bidding in eBay Auctions (formerly titled "eBay's Proxy Bidding System: A License to Shill")
Nov 9
Lubomira Ivanova Kellogg Finance Job Market Talk: Sector Stock Picking Talent of Fund Managers: Does It Exist?
Nov 10 Yael Hochberg Cornell Who You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance (with Alexander Ljungqvist, NYU and Yang Lu, NYU)
Nov 15, 12-1:15 pm, Rm 430 Alexey Malakhov Kellogg MEDS Job Market Talk: The Role of Uninformed Buyers in Optimal IPO Mechanisms
Nov 17 Viral Acharya LBS Is Cash Negative Debt?-The Implications of Financial Constraints and Hedging Needs (with Heitor Almeida, NYU and Murillo Campello, U of I)
Dec 1  Francisco Perez-Gonzales
Columbia The Impact of Acquiring Control on Productivity
Dec 2, 12-1 pm, Rm 4214  William McLean NU, VP and Chief Investment Officer, Investments/Real Estate Managing University Endowments

 

Spring 2004
Date Presenter School Paper Title
Mar 31 Paul Willen U Chicago GSB Social Security and Unsecured Debt
April 7 Raj Chetty U California, Berkeley Consumption Commitments, Unemployment Durations, and Local Risk Aversion
April 14 Nick Barberis U Chicago GSB Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles and the Equity Premium (with Ming Huang, Stanford and Richard Thaler, U Chicago)
April 21 Thomas Philippon NYU Stern Government Deficits and Interest Rates: A No-Arbitrage Structural VAR Approach (with Qiang Dai, NYU)
April 28 Yuliy Sannikov Stanford GSB A Principal-Agent Problem with Unobservable Cash Flows in Continuous Time (with Peter DeMarzo, Stanford)
May 5 S. Viswanathan Duke Endogenous Events and Long Run Returns (with Bin Wei, Duke)
May 12 Ravi Jagannathan Kellogg Assessing the Risk in Sample Minimum Risk Portfolios (with Gopal Basak, U Minn and Tongshu Ma, U Utah)
May 19 Luigi Zingales U Chicago GSB Corporate Governance and Taxation (with M. Desai and A. Dyck, Harvard)
May 26 Simon Johnson MIT Sloan Unbundling Institutions (with Daron Acemoglu, MIT)
June 2 Tan Wang U British Columbia A simple theory of asset pricing under model uncertainty (with Leonid Kogan)

 

Fall 2003
Date Presenter School Paper Title
Sep 24 Jon Lewellen MIT Sloan The Conditional CAPM Does Not Explain Asset-Pricing Anomalies (w/ Nagel)
Oct 1 Michael Johannes Columbia GSB The Impact of Collateralization on Swap Rates (with Sundaresan)
Oct 8 Rene Stulz Ohio State Wealth Destruction on a Massive Scale? A Study of Acquiring-Firm Returns in the Recent Merger Wave (with Moeller and Schlingemann)
Oct 15 Lasse Pedersen NYU Stern Predatory Trading (with Brunnermeier)
Oct 22 Xavier Gabaix MIT A Theory of Large Fluctuations in Stock Market Activity (with Gopikrishan, Plerou, and Stanley)
Oct 29 Stan Zin Carnegie Mellon Generalized Disappointment Aversion and Asset Prices (with Routledge)
Nov 5 Alexander Ljungqvist NYU Stern Competing for Securities Underwriting Mandates: Banking Relationships and Analyst Recommendations (w/ Marston and Wilhelm)
Nov 12 Tuomo Vuolteenaho Harvard New Forecasts of the Equity Premium (with Christoper Polk and Sam Thompson)
Nov 19 Ilan Kremer Stanford Relative Wealth Concerns, Herding, and Bubble-like Price Dynamics (with Peter DeMarzo and Ron Kaniel)
Dec 3 Anna Pavlova MIT Sloan Offsetting the Incentives: Risk Shifting and Benefits of Benchmarking in Money Management (with Basak and Shapiro)
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